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Dame Van Winkle
The son of protagonist Rip Van Winkle and Dame Van Winkle. Rip Jr. is determined to grow up to be just like his father. The reader sees at the end of the story that he has succeeded in this (which also means that he has avoided succeeding in much of anything else).
Rip Van Winkle, Jr. Quotes in Rip Van Winkle
The Rip Van Winkle quotes below are all either spoken by Rip Van Winkle, Jr. or refer to Rip Van Winkle, Jr.. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“Rip Van Winkle” Quotes
His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with the old clothes of his father.
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Rip Van Winkle, Jr. Character Timeline in Rip Van Winkle
The timeline below shows where the character Rip Van Winkle, Jr. appears in Rip Van Winkle. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
“Rip Van Winkle”
...on a small village at the foot of these mountains, where a good-natured man named Rip Van Winkle lives. Rip’s greatest trouble is his wife, Dame Van Winkle, who is shrewish and constantly...
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...War, that Derrick Van Bummel is now working in the American congress, and that he, Rip Van Winkle , has been missing for 20 years. His son is now grown, and a perfect...
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